GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A Campus Elementary fourth-grader was pushed and jostled by at least one classmate who was allegedly given $1 by a lunchroom aide to beat him up, and Grand Rapids Public Schools documents show it may not have been the first time the child was targeted.

A district incident report and statements from school employees and students show the contracted employee, who has since been fired, was observed giving one child money in exchange for the physical abuse on Oct. 7.

The documents, obtained by the Grand Rapids Press/MLive.com under the Freedom of Information Act, also allege that the worker, identified in the district records as Brooke Wilson-Johnson, solicited an attack three days earlier on Oct. 4.

"I got told by two kids that they got payed but there buddys of mine so the didn't beat me up," the fourth-grade student reported to the district's public safety department in a written statement.

The alleged attempt to pay students to injure the child was in retaliation for his antics that included disobeying Wilson-Johnson and calling her a "pregnant b----," records show.

The targeted student eventually ran to resource teacher Renee Lance and said: "Mrs. Lance, you gotta help me! That lunch lady is giving kids a dollar to beat me up," Lance wrote in her statement.

Lance wrote that she saw Wilson-Johnson, who has not been charged with a crime connected to the alleged misconduct but was fired by West Michigan Janitorial Services after the incident, giving a student who admitted bumping into his classmate on "accident" a $1 bill.

Lance and a school cook reported the suspicious situation to principal Bernard Colton, who initiated an investigation that was referred to Grand Rapids police, records show. Authorities did not return calls last week seeking the status of the investigation.

Wilson-Johnson, who began working at Campus this year, could not be reached for comment on the allegations. She had passed a background check, officials said.

The records do not include any written statements from Wilson-Johnson, but the file shows she allegedly admitted the threat to Colton. She told Colton that she was "playing," the principal said in documents. She recounted to Colton being called a profanity by the student, a claim backed up by other employees, records disclose.

Colton wrote that when he spoke with the student's mother, she told him that the boy "tends to lie so much that she did not believe his story." Colton apologized to her and said he would get the bottom of the situation.

The next morning the mother called Colton and said that her son was constantly being bullied and that students were taking his food. Colton said he had not seen that and that he is generally in the lunchroom, a spot where he has corrected the boy's behavior on several occasions when he was breaking school rules.

In a statement, another lunchroom employee sheds some light on how things escalated on the day of the reported threat. Wilson-Johnson told the student to stand on the wall earlier because "he was talking and not listening to staff directions," documents show.

"(He) then had an attitude and told her no! And he used inappropriate language and called Brook a pregnant B-word," a school employee wrote.